“O Walter, I have shelter’d right here Almost any maiden elegance The good old Summertimes, seasons because of the seasons, Produced ripe inside the Sumner-chace:
“Old Summertimes, when the monk are body weight, And you can, issuing shorn and you can smooth, Create twist their girdle rigid, and you will pat The fresh girls abreast of the fresh cheek.
“Ere yet, from inside the scorn out-of Peter’s-pence, And number’d bead, and shrift, Bluff Harry bankrupt into the spence, And turn’d brand new cowls adrift:
“And i also have seen certain rating of them New confronts, who would flourish When their people-minded offset flower So you’re able to chase new deer at four;
“And all sorts of the ones from the town would go, Right up until you to definitely nuts breeze generated work in that the depressing brewer’s soul Went by me personally, such a beneficial stork:
“New moderate she-slides from devoted blood, While some, passageway compliment, Strait-laced, but most of the as well full into the bud Having puritanic stays: >
“And that i have shadow’d of numerous a group of beauties, that have been produced Inside teacup-days of bonnet and hoop, Otherwise as patch is worn;
“And you may, toes and you will case which have love-tangles gay, About me leap’d and you may laugh’d The new Modish Cupid of the day, And you may shrill’d their tinsel axle.
“I swear (and you may more get insects prick For every leaf to the a good gall) This girl, getting exactly who your cardio is actually unwell, Try three times really worth them;
Say thou, whereon I created their particular title, When housemaid or companion, Just like the reasonable given that my personal Olivia, involved other people beneath thy boughs
“For these and you may theirs, from the Nature’s legislation, Have faded in the past; In such latter springs I saw Your Olivia strike,
“From the time she gamboll’d towards greens, A baby-germ, to help you if the maiden blooms off their youngsters You’ll count five of ten.
“I swear, because of the leaf, and you can snap, and rain (And hear me having thine ears), You to definitely, tho’ We circle-in brand new grain Five hundred rings of ages-
“Yet, since i have basic you will throw a trace, Performed never ever creature ticket So slightly, musically made, So light abreast of the new yard:
“To thai tytГ¶t avioliittoon own about fairies, that may flit To really make the greensward fresh, We hold all of them exceptionally knit, But far too free out-of tissue.”
“O past, you are aware, brand new reasonable Is actually holden in the town; Their own father remaining his a sleeve-sofa, And you can rode their huntsman down.
“An hour or so had earlier in the day-and you may, seated straight Within the low-wheel’d chaise, Their own mom trundled to your gate At the rear of the fresh dappled grays.
“However,, as for their unique, she stay’d at your home, And on the new roof she went, And you may down the way make use of to come, She look’d having discontent.
“She leftover the fresh unique 1 / 2 of-uncut Up on this new rosewood shelf; She remaining the keyboard closed: She couldn’t please herself.
“Upcoming ran she, gamesome because the colt, And livelier than a good lark She sent their unique sound thro’ all the fresh new holt In advance of her, while the playground.
“A light snap chased their own to your wing, Along with the brand new chase increased wild, As close just like the could be create the guy cling Towards darling child:
“However, light as the any wind you to definitely blows So fleetly performed she blend, New flower she touch’d towards dipt and you will rose, And turn’d to take on their unique.
“This is how she emerged, and bullet myself play’d, And you may carried out in my opinion the complete Of those about three stanzas one you made Regarding my ‘large bole’;
Oh, hide thy knotted hips within the fern, And ignore the chace; And you may from thy topmost department detect The fresh roofs from Sumner-set
“Along with a match out-of frolic mirth She strove in order to duration my hips: Sadly, I was very broad regarding girth, I will not be embraced.